well...lets see...jack chase who my mate flea speaks a lot of...but i'm not sure who the heavyweight champ was that ko'd him
billy arnold was the wrong weight to fit here.
i remember you speaking about the new jack dempsey once who got beat by walcott....trying to remember the name though...tommy lopez ??
doug.ie, you are so close, that you win by a tko...It was Tommy Gomez of Tampa, Florida, a smallish heavyweight sensational puncher who knocked out 65 fighters ,winning 75 times...Gomez was an authentic war hero that was wounded 16 times in the Battle of the Bulge in WW2. He was in a French hospital for six months, recuperating from his wounds. After he was discharged Gomez resumed his career and kod about everyone he met
and was called by some,"the new Joe Louis ", until that fatal bout I saw with my dad at MSG in 1946 when he was kod by the rising veteran the 32 year old Jersey Joe Walcott. Gomez went downhill after that and Walcott became heavyweight champ years later....The hands of fate...
P.S. What a fight that would have been between Tommy Gomez and Rocky Marciano at that time !!! Both the exact same size, and I truly don't know who would have won a bout between them both at their bests...Similar styles....Take care doug...
